After I was resurrected from the dead, I turned from an old man to a peerless beauty

The red peony came back to her senses, was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled frivolously, and said: "If you want to, it's okay, but you should talk about it after the matter is done. People feel unlucky..."

The words sounded very relaxed, but Zhang Qiong stood aside and looked at the two people who were talking and laughing at the table, her heart stopped beating...

It always feels like something is going to go wrong.

Zhang Qiong shook her head, as if this could shake off the ominous premonition that filled her heart.

But the reality is not always satisfactory. Just when Zhang Qiong was trying to comfort himself that with people like Gong Ningzi stepping in, the matter would definitely be resolved easily, but he was a little stunned to see Hong Mudan reaching out to fill the one on the table. Pulling the box of color grease and powder towards her, she then sat aside Shi Shiran and began to paint on her face with the same skillful technique as before.

"Master, Master?"

Zhang Qiong stared fixedly at the red peony, and when the outline that he was so familiar with gradually emerged on that charming face, he finally couldn't help but let out a low cry, half startled and half terrified.

"What's wrong? What's wrong with my drawing?"

Hong Mudan turned her head and glanced at Zhang Qiong, speaking with her usual tone of impatience and teasing.

"This is... why..."

It turns out that the person that Red Peony is dressing up in front of the mirror is Zhang Qiong.

Unlike Gong Ningzi who forced makeup into a greasy and disgusting eunuch, Hong Mudan is a young woman and Zhang Qiong is a teenager. Both of them have handsome and beautiful facial features. It is not necessary to use Zhang Qiong's face, but with a little shadow and paste some tough outlines of the boy, the two are already [-]% similar.

However, seeing that Hong Mudan suddenly changed her appearance and used her own face to put on such an expression, Zhang Qiong didn't know what kind of posture she should put on at this time.

Zhang Qiong had already prepared in her heart that after entering the palace, she would have to face her weird and crazy Emperor Yun who hated him to the bone.Looking at the scene in front of him, how could he fail to guess that Gong Ningzi and Hong Mudan actually had no intention of letting him enter the palace at all.

Red Peony looked at Zhang Qiong with a rare expression of panic, but she smiled, stretched out her hand and tapped Zhang Qiong's forehead, and sighed: "I usually look very smart, why does she look stupid today—— Even the spies raised by the government for many years in the imperial palace never returned, how dare we send you into the palace now. Even..."

Even if Gong Ningzi and I went in this time, it is still unknown whether we can get out as planned...

When this sentence came to her mouth, Hong Mudan thought about it, but she didn't say it.

I always feel that it's a bit inappropriate to say it.

In the dark, the master and apprentice have exactly the same intuition about this time entering the palace.

Gong Ningzi waited until Red Peony finished dressing up and changed into Zhang Qiong's clothes, then took out a seal from her pocket with a calm attitude, and casually threw it to Zhang Qiong.

"After a while, you will leave the Chizheng Mansion through the secret path, and someone will meet you. After three days, if the matter is completed, you will enter the palace...and then ascend the throne."

Gong Ningzi said.

Zhang Qiong's pupils shrank slightly, and then she heard Gong Ningzi's still calm voice: "If you don't see the two of us after three days, then take this seal and run away quickly - after that, Chizhengfu, It is yours. If you want to live in peace, you can find an unknown remote place to stay. If you are not willing, you can use this seal as a proof to contact the three armed forces in the north. In short, you are under my control. After staying in the government for so many years, I must still be able to survive."

Zhang Qiong looked at the seal in her hand in amazement, and then at Gong Ningzi. For a moment, it was as if she was in a dream.

How did things get so bad?

He was a little confused.

I thought that if Gong Ningzi made a move, whether it was Emperor Yun or Penglai Sanren, they would be able to solve it easily.But looking at the actions and arrangements of Gong Ningzi and Hong Mudan now, it is no longer possible to hold back.

The seal in Zhang Qiong's palm is made of high-quality suet white jade, and the little beast carved on it is said to be a tiger—but Zhang Qiong knows that the little beast is actually a naive kitten.

For some reason, Zhang Qiong felt a dull pain in her chest while holding the seal.

"Oh, your highness, don't put on such a face, it's uncomfortable to watch."

It was Hong Mudan who crossed her legs and made a sound, breaking the suffocating dullness in the room.

"Just in case, logically speaking, if there is a beautiful woman like me who is beautiful and scheming, and Gong Ningzi who is black and cold, what will happen?"

Red Peony said with a light smile, then turned her head and looked out the window.

"Well, I guess the time is coming soon, His Royal Highness, let's go."

She stretched out her hand and pushed Zhang Qiong's shoulder, pushing the young man who was still a little thin towards the secret passage.

"Master...Palace Master Gong..."

Obviously, he has experienced so many moments of life and death over the years, but only this time, Zhang Qiong looked a little dazed and miserable. He stepped into the secret passage, but he still couldn't help turning his head and calling the two of them in a low voice.

Gong Ningzi turned around and stared at Zhang Qiong calmly.

The slightly bright sky came in through the window, casting a thin and cold light on his body.

He had obviously dressed up as such a disgusting eunuch, but at this moment, Gong Ning's purple brows had an awe-inspiring air.

"Your Highness, if this matter can be settled safely, when we meet again next time, I should call you 'Your Majesty'." Suddenly, a small smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "As your Majesty, you should have the air of an emperor... ...Don't be afraid, it will be fine."

Zhang Qiong had never seen such a gentle, even amiable Gong Ningzi.

Suddenly, my heart trembled, my eyes were slightly hot, and I was about to shed tears.

"Palace Master Gong, actually..."

In fact, Lin Mao is not dead, he is now taking Chang Xiaoqing, and wants to go to the Wulin League to find his big apprentice——

Zhang Qiong thought of the things she had concealed from Gong Ningzi before, and she was just about to tell the whole truth.

It's a pity that at this moment, both Hong Mudan and Gong Ningzi heard the gradually clear and chaotic footsteps outside the room.

The people from the palace have arrived!

Red Peony's face was sombre, she stretched out her index finger and tapped her lips lightly to signal Zhang Qiong to keep silent.Immediately afterwards, she saw her cuffs flicking on the wall, and a thin wall moved across without a sound, completely covering the entrance and exit of the dark secret passage, and then pulling down the hanging picture on the wall, the room remained the same. It's the impregnable prison cell with copper walls and iron walls.

"boom--"

Almost at the moment Hong Mudan turned around and sat down, the door of the room was suddenly opened.

"His Royal Highness, His Majesty Yun Huang ordered our family to come and pick you up to the palace—"

A sharp voice sounded, and the eunuch who looked haggard and paler than ordinary people raised his brows and eyes, and was satisfied to see the bleak "Zhang Qiong" in the room moving slowly towards Come outside.

It was said to "welcome" His Highness the Crown Prince back to the palace, but in fact it was just "escort".

Outside Chizheng Mansion, there were several times more people coming from the palace.I won’t go into details about how Zhang Qiong, who was dressed as a red peony, got into the car, and how several people entered the palace. In short, Gong Ningzi wore the skin of the eunuch Wang, and the journey was very convenient. No obstacles were encountered.

In order to keep His Highness the Crown Prince under surveillance, the "Eunuch Wang" took the same car with the "Prince Qiong" very logically.So with the sound of the car, it is very convenient for them to communicate with each other.

[Not quite right. 】

Red Peony said to Gong Ningzi with her mouth.

[It smells like a dead person. 】

Gong Ningzi nodded, his eyes became darker and darker.

That's right, Gong Ningzi and Hong Mudan keenly sensed something was wrong when the group escorting the prince had just entered the palace.

This palace...is too quiet.

That kind of quietness is completely different from the quietness produced by strict palace rules and everyone's words and deeds in the past.

It's a dead... quietness.

When walking through the layered corridors and palaces all the way to the place where Emperor Yun was, in the huge palace, there were only the small footsteps of several court priests who escorted Zhang Qiong.

Gong Ningzi took advantage of the identity of the eunuch Wang, very calmly opened a corner of the carriage window and looked out.

It is still the deep palace wall that he is familiar with, full of suffocating vermilion and yellow tiles, the flat blue brick floor is covered with residual snow on the palace road, but there are countless huge crows with their necks curled up, standing tall. Standing high and low on the eaves of the palace passing by, staring at the group of people walking slowly on the narrow road with small blood red eyes.

And the low-level maids or waiters who were supposed to be diligently shuttled back and forth in the palace to handle errands like ants did not see a single person.

The sky is completely bright, but the light seems to be blocked by something. The light in the imperial city seems to be much darker than other places, and every shadow looks ghostly, and it is impossible to tell. spooky and gory.

Gong Ningzi returned to her seat, because Hong Mudan couldn't see his face clearly through the human skin mask, but just by looking at his eyes, she knew that the situation might be worse than they thought.

But Gong Ningzi's mind kept replaying the scenes just now——

There was snow on the palace road, obviously no one came to clean it for a long time.

There are many crows in the palace, which is known to those who often go in and out of the palace.

But these crows are the smartest in today's freezing cold, if not for special reasons, these flat-haired beasts would not appear in this bare deep palace to suffer the cold in vain.But the crows that Gong Ningzi saw just now were huge and fat.This only means that they are here, and there is a lot of food.

And everyone knows that the favorite food of crows is carrion.